TALK(1N)                COMMAND REFERENCE                TALK(1N)



NAME
     talk - talk to another user

SYNOPSIS
     talk person[ttyname]

DESCRIPTION
     Talk is a visual communication program which copies lines
     from your terminal to that of another user.

     If you wish to talk to someone on you own machine, then
     person is just the person's loginname. If you wish to talk
     to a user on another host, then person is of the form :

                         host!user  or
                         host.user  or
                         host:user  or
                         user@host

     Note that user@host is  preferred.

     If you want to talk to a user who is logged in more than
     once, the ttyname argument may be used to indicate the
     appropriate terminal name.

     When first called, it sends the message

          Message from TalkDaemon@his_machine...  talk:
          connection requested by your_name@your_machine.  talk:
          respond with: talk your_name@your_machine

     to the user you wish to talk to. At this point, the
     recipient of the message should reply by typing

          talk  your_name@your_machine

     It doesn't matter from which machine the recipient replies,
     as long as his or her loginname is the same.  Once
     communication is established, the two parties may type
     simultaneously, with their output appearing in separate
     windows.  Typing <CTRL-L> will cause the screen to be
     reprinted, while your erase, kill, and word kill characters
     will work in talk as normal.  To exit, just type your
     interrupt character; talk then moves the cursor to the
     bottom of the screen and restores the terminal.

     Permission to talk may be denied or granted by use of the
     mesg command.  At the outset talking is allowed.  Certain
     commands, in particular nroff and pr(1) disallow messages in
     order to prevent messy output.





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TALK(1N)                COMMAND REFERENCE                TALK(1N)



FILES
     /etc/hosts               To find the recipient's machine.

     /etc/utmp                To find the recipient's tty.

RETURN VALUE
     [0]              No errors.

     [nonzero]        Errors occurred.

SEE ALSO
     mesg(1), who(1N), mail(1), write(1).











































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